Above Dardago the paved road comes to an end and a gravel road continues the ascent.  This is Strada Venezia delle Neve, a 1960's ski re...

Cadolten is another of the long hard climbs from the pedemontana to the Cansiglio-Piancavallo mountain ridge.  It's best attempted on a ...

Beautiful May day for a ride down to the Adriatico at Bibione.  I’d read that they’d built ferry landings at Bibione and Lignano for cyclis...

Valfredda Scree Climb from Barcis to Montelonga

I needed to test my MTB after some maintenance so I took a spin up past Madonna delle Monte to Bornass, Castaldia, Via delle Malghe to the t...

I rode to Barcis and around the back of the lake when  an official told me the road to Piancavallo was closed for a rally car race.  So I ro...

Another favorite steep steep climb, but this one is over by the Tagliamento River.  After a long warm up through Pinzano and Peonis I turned...

I love this crazy climb.  It starts at Montaner and heads very steeply upward to end of pavement at 850 meters.  At the last farmhouse you b...

Rode up through the tunnels to Barcis, through Cimolais, over Passo San Osvaldo, through the tunnel at Vajont dam, down the switchbacks to ...

Cima della Cima is another in the series of death-climbs starting from il pedemontana and grappling up the Monte Cavallo massif.   After w...

The climb from Coltura up through Mezzomonte to the ridge crest road  connecting Piancavallo with il Cansiglio is unique.  There is no traff...

A visit to Ragogna and the steep climb from Muris to Monte Ragogna.  A couple of weeks from now the Giro d’Italia will race up this climb on...